Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Bill Walton, Ben Weingarten and Natalie Winters

BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow

• Bill Walton: President Biden’s recent vaccine mandate calls into question the existence and expansion of the “administrative state”
• The United State Supreme Court’s Chevron Decision: “Administrative entities have the power to make decisions delegated to them by Congress”
• In passing laws over the past 30-40 years, Walton argues that Congress has not been specific enough when outlining the authority of the state - Only giving the politicians “plausible deniability”
• Walton: It’s hard to know where the Biden Administration starts and BlackRock Inc., begins - Three of the administration’s top economic advisor are BlackRock alumni

BEN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO, ChangeUp Media LLC, Senior Contributor, The Federalist, Senior Fellow, the London Center for Policy Research, Author, "American Ingrate" @bhweingarten

• Ben Weingarten addresses Sec. Antony Blinken’s testimony before Congress: It’s been the same line from the administration: Defending withdrawing instead of the nature of the withdrawal
• Weingarten: It is "intellectually dishonest" for the Biden administration to point the finger at everyone else but themselves
• Weingarten: Why is it in America’s national interest to import, in a time like this, thousands of people from a country where 90% of the population supports Sharia law
• While the Capitol Riot was treated as a domestic terrorism issue, the George Floyd riots were not

NATALIE WINTERS, Investigative Reporter, The National Pulse, Contributor, The National Pulse Podcast, @nataliegwinters

• Natalie Winters: People do not understand that the entire scientific ecosystem in China is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party
• The National Institute of Health grant money not only went to EcoHealth but also the Wuhan Institute of Virology
• Winters: China’s Southern Medical University, which is linked to the People’s Liberation Army, assisted the Wuhan Institute in conducting their gain of function research by providing human blood samples
• 170 plus professors lobby the Biden administration’s Department of Justice to discontinue the China Initiative, started under the Trump administration

With John Rossomando, Sam Faddis and Todd Bensman

JOHN ROSSOMANDO, Senior Analyst of Defense Policy, Center for Security Policy, Former Senior Analyst, Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism, Former Senior Managing Editor, The Bulletin, @JohnRossomando

• John Rossomando talks about the 20th anniversary of Ahmad Shah Masood’s assassination
• Rossomando: The Biden Administration lied about striking a supposed car bomb in Kabul
• Will Afghanistan become another hotbed for terrorism? 

SAM FADDIS, Former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis

• Sam Faddis: No question at all that the Pakistani’s remain “lashed up” with the Taliban
• Faddis talks about the ongoing genocide against resistance fighters in the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan
• Faddis talks about the findings of some virologists: We have never seen a naturally occurring virus that is built this way [COVID-19]

TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Author,  "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration," @BensmanTodd

• Todd Bensman: After 9/11, U.S. government officials shored up America’s immigration system to prevent foreign nations with dubious intentions from entering the U.S. with visas by instituting extensive national security vetting
• The eye-bulging case of Naif Abdulaziz Alfallaj
• What happens to those migrants charged with terrorism?
• Bensman: The problem is that national security vetting has become a partisan issue

Debra Burlingame, Douglas Feith and Dr. Zuhdi Jasser

DEBRA BURLINGAME, Lawyer and Activist, Sister of Flight 77 Pilot, Charles "Chic" Burlingame III: 

• Debra Burlingame revisits the events of September 11, 2001 and the death of her late brother Captain Charles "Chic" Burlingame III
• Burlingame: Many of the Guantanamo Bay inmates were not simple “farmers” who got swept up in a conflict, they were veterans of previous holy wars
• Burlingame: There is no safe haven from Radical Islamic terrorism 

DOUGLAS FEITH, Former US Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Author, "War and Decision," Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute:

• Douglas Feith revisits where he was on September 11, 2001
• Feith talks about the United States’ originally, retaliatory approach to terrorist attacks
• Feith delves into the Bush administration’s efforts to target terrorists abroad following 9/11
• Feith: Nobody can argue that the Bush administrations counterterrorism strategy did not succeed in its main goal, preventing another 9/11

DR. M. ZUHDI JASSER, President, American Islamic Forum for Democracy, Former US NAVY Lieutenant-Commander, Host, Blaze Radio Podcast: “REFORM THIS!," Founder, Take Back Islam, Co-Founder, Muslim Reform Movement, Author, A Battle for the Soul of Islam, @DrZuhdiJasser

• 6 million people have signed up to serve in the U.S. military since the attacks on September 11, 2001
• Dr. Zuhdi Jasser: Since its founding, Islam has never truly gone through a reformation
• Dr. Jasser: There are those who want to reform Islam but do not have the backing of big oil and Al Jazeera  

With Michael Gonzalez

MICHAEL GONZALEZ, Senior Fellow, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation, Former Speechwriter, Securities and Exchange Commission, Former Foreign Correspondent, Wall Street Journal, Author, “The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free" and "BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution," @Gundisalvus

• What do the Marxists want: Centralization
• Today’s Left does not only care about race: Derrick Bell, the “Godfather” of Critical Race Theory, delivered a scathing diatribe against then-Supreme Court justice nominee Clarence Thomas
• Eric Mann, Author of “Playbook for Progressives” and former Weather Underground member, recruited Pactrice Cullors, later framing her into Marxism
• Mike Gonzalez: “The Weather Underground has been far more successful at acting in this century through the proxy of others”
• Susan Rosenberg, a former member of a far-left domestic terrorist organization, was a board member of Thousand Currents, which funded the BLM Global Network Foundation
• Why are “Woke Capitalists” funding the Marxists? - BLM Global Network Foundation raised over $100 million in FY 2020
• Alicia Garza in 2019: “I believe we all have work to do to keep dismantling the organizing principle of this society…”
• Twin legacies of Black Lives Matter, Inc.: Rising violent crime rates and Critical Race Theory

With Robert Spencer and Susan Katz Keating

ROBERT SPENCER, Director, Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist, PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine, Author, "Mass Migration in Europe: A Model for the U.S.?," and forthcoming, "Islamophobia and the Threat to Free Speech," @jihadwatchRS 

• Robert Spencer: The “willful ignorance” on the part of the U.S. authorities towards Sharia is why America failed in Afghanistan - Sharia is more than a religious doctrine
• Spencer talks about the Obama administration’s decision to trade five Guantanamo inmates for Bowe Bergdahl, four of whom are back enforcing a Sharia government in Afghanistan
• Germany: Afghan Muslim migrant who stabbed two tried to convert his neighbors to Islam

SUSAN KATZ KEATING, Chief National Security Correspondent, JustTheNews.com, Security and Terrorism Correspondent, American Media Institute, Military Correspondent, People Magazine, @SKatzKeating

• Ahmad Massoud, leader of the resistance in Panjshir, Afghanistan, told Just the News’ Susan Katz Keating that, “I will never surrender to the Taliban…I will fight them”
• Leaders of the resistance in Afghanistan view the Taliban as invaders
• What is the current state of the resistance in and around the Panjshir Valley?
• Is the Taliban looting valuables from Kabul and relocating them to Kandahar?

With Sam Faddis, Gordon Chang and Bill Walton

SAM FADDIS, former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis

• Sam Faddis The Taliban does not control the entirety of the Panjshir valley -Just because the President fled, that does not mean the entire government of Afghanistan ceased to exist
• Faddis argues that Americans are in the midst of a government that wants to give diplomatic recognition to a terrorist superstate
• Will $9 billion plus in frozen assets belonging to the Afghan government wind-up in the hands of the Taliban?
• Following the Taliban’s recent decree, thousands of women may be subjugated into sex slavery in Afghanistan 

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang

• George Soros warns against investing in Xi Jinping’s China
• Gordon Chang: Since assuming power in 2012, Xi Jinping has revers Mao
• Chang: Xi has disadvantaged nearly everyone in Chinese society, which makes for a lot of enemies - The Chinese political system may become more unpredictable and violent

BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow

• George Soros: “Congress should pass legislation empowering the Securities and Exchange Commission to limit the flow of funds to China.”
• Bill Walton: According to Soros, pursuing “Common Prosperity,” which may be Xi’s code word for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), does not augur well for foreign investors - “Chinese companies proclaiming not to pursue economic objects is bad for investors”
• Walton: “Even if we did want to show muscle against China in the kinetic front, we are incapable of doing that” - The culture of the progressives is holding the U.S. and its allies back

With Gordon Chang, James Carafano and Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang

• Gordon Chang: Xi Jinping is trying to move China back to the 1950s - Xi is attacking China’s technology sector, forcing through a “common prosperity” campaign, etc.
• Chang: Common prosperity is not merely a slogan, it is more enduring
• China accuses the U.S. of “barbaric acts”
• U.S. intel community’s summary on the origins of COVID-19: Lab leak theory plausible

JAMES JAY CARAFANO, Vice President, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation, Author, "Brutal War," @JJCarafano

• Afghanistan is not in the President’s rear view mirror: the Hostage situation, transnational terrorism, and more
• James Carafano: As long as the Taliban and/or the Haqqani network do not meddle in Pakistan’s affairs, they do not care what they do
• Carafano: This administration is going to try and normalize relations with the Taliban, who in turn, will not go after ISIS-K, Al-Qaeda, etc.
• Carafano: We as conservatives have always treated the movement as a buffet table - That doesn’t cut it anymore

BRIG. GEN. DON BOLDUC, Candidate for the U.S. Senate, New Hampshire, Retired Brigadier General and Special Ops Africa, U.S. Army, @GenDonBolduc

• Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc talks about America’s counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan
• Brig. Gen. Bolduc: Between 2010-2013, the Afghan government controlled 90% of the country, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda were rendered ineffective and “we were well on our way to transitioning [military operations] to [the Afghans].”
• Where did things take a turn for the worst? Gen. Milley and others allowed the Obama administration to alter operations on the ground in Afghanistan

With Victoria Coates, Jeff Nyquist and Bill Walton

VICTORIA COATES, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Security Policy's Middle East and North Africa Department,  President, USAGM's Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc., former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Middle Eastern and North African Affairs, National Security Council, Author, "David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art," @VictoriaCoates

• Victoria Coates talks about the world’s reaction to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan: Our allies around the world are in a state of “shocked disbelief”
• Victoria Coates: No more nation building - Although many Americans and the people of the countries they are trying to help desire the infrastructure necessary to operate a functional government, i.e. education, a just legal system, it is not always, “ours to give”
• Coates: The international development complex, since the 1960s, has operated under the pretense that all aid must be non-conditional
• Coates: “The enemy of my enemy is NOT my friend when he is a terrorist”

JEFF NYQUIST, Writer, Epoch Times, Author, “Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War” and “The Fool and His Enemy,” JRNyquist.blog, @JRNyquist

• Jeff Nyquist: Were 100,000 plus people really airlifted out of Afghanistan?
• U.S. government personnel on the ground in Kabul: Planes were leaving nearly empty

BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow

• Despite what some critics have said about the Biden administration’s catering to Beijing, U.S. officials continue to monitor both Chinese and American capital flows between both nations
• How much should we trust the word of George Soros when it comes to protecting American investors from Xi Jinping’s China?
• Bill Walton: Investors tend to act under the assumption that governments are rational and always try to grow wealth - Xi is doing the exact opposite

With Sam Faddis, Ed Timperlake and Robert Charles

SAM FADDIS, former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis

• Sam Faddis on the Biden administration’s response to the situation in Afghanistan: “You don’t know whether to laugh or cry”
• Faddis: Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is convinced the Taliban may respond to U.S. diplomatic messages and demands
• Faddis: Already hundreds of Chinese officials in Afghanistan assisting the Taliban hunt down opponents to the new regime
• Will the Taliban turn on their backer, Pakistan? And what does a destabilized Pakistan mean for international security?

EDWARD TIMPERLAKE, Former Director of Technology Assessment, International Technology Security, Former Representative, National Counterintelligence Executive Committee, US Department of Defense, Captain (ret.), US Marine Corps (1969-1975), Author, Year of the Rat

• Ed Timberlake: When you surrender a fighting force, the next era of horror begins - The international press core needs to keep their focus on the events that will transpire in Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal
• Timperlake on why China is wrong to “mock the ranks” of the U.S. military: Those who stayed in the military after Vietnam gave us Desert Storm
• Will Biden’s surrender in Afghanistan beget a hot war with China?

ROBERT CHARLES, Spokesman, Association of Mature American Citizens, Former Assistant Secretary, State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author, "Eagles and Evergreens," @RCharles4USA

• Robert Charles talks about the one thing that all Americans need to know about the situation in Afghanistan: “We still have Americans in that country”
• Charles: When push comes to shove, the U.S. must continue to be the voice of civil liberties around the world

With Dr. Li-Meng Yan

DR. LI-MENG YAN, Medical Doctor, Ph.D and Virologist, @DrLiMengYAN1

• Dr. Li-Meng Yan: The Wuhan seafood market is just a smoke screen - COVID came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
• Dr. Yan: The Chinese government tried to “disappear me”
• Dr. Yan: Communist China’s reach is “beyond your imagination”
• Lockdowns, which were supposed to be used in isolated incidents and for short periods of time, were used in China to the fullest extent - These strategies were exported abroad
• Dr. Yan delves into the numerous similarities between Maoism/Marxism and critical race theory within the U.S.